Bill Crider
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"Life is never easy for Texas Sheriff Dan Rhodes. When he is called in the middle of the night to investigate gunshots at a haunted house, Rhodes finds the body of meth dealer Neil Foshee. Recently released from jail, Foshee has his fair share of potential murderers, including former girlfriend Vicki, her new boyfriend, the nephew of Clearview's mayor, and Foshee's criminal cousins Earl and Louie. Complicating matters is Seepy Benton, the community...
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"Ellie Taine was a newlywed working the dry land in 1880s Texas when the desperados came. They killed her husband, raped her and left her for dead. But she hunted them down and, along the way, found an inner strength that no man can match. Now ruthless killer Angel Ware has engineered a bold escape from a prison wagon. Blaming his sister Sue for his arrest, Angel and his gang track her down to Ellie's ranch, mount a bloody attack, and take Sue's child....
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"The local community college and an antique dealer team up to have a workshop for artists. One local man, Burt Collins, isn't fond of the art, and he isn't fond of having the artists in town. Sheriff Dan Rhodes is called to the antique store because Collins has been accused of vandalizing some paintings. When Rhodes arrives, two men are restraining Collins. But before Rhodes can take Collins into custody, a near riot breaks out. Rhodes gets the situation...
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"Life is never easy for Sheriff Dan Rhodes. Even in a small Texas county, there's always something going on for a sheriff to look into, whether it's an attempted robbery, a marijuana patch guarded by an alligator, or a murder. This time the murdered man seems to be connected to a string of recent burglaries, but just how isn't easy to figure out. It takes some time and another murder before Sheriff Rhodes discovers the answers.Survivors Will Be Shot...
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Life is never easy for Texas Sheriff Dan Rhodes. When he is called in the middle of the night to investigate gunshots at a haunted house, Rhodes finds the body of meth dealer Neil Foshee. Recently released from jail, Foshee has his fair share of potential murderers, including former girlfriend Vicki, her new boyfriend, the nephew of Clearview's mayor, and Foshee's criminal cousins Earl and Louie.Complicating matters is Seepy Benton, the community...
13) Muttketeer!
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Locked out of the school while Joe and his friends are inside, Wishbone imagines himself as D'Artagnan, a young seventeenth-century Frenchman who achieves his dream of becoming one of the prestigious musketeers who guard the king and his court.
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In Texas, where high school football is as important as religion, Sheriff Dan Rhodes investigates a murder after a championship game. The victim was the home team's offensive coach and there is no end of suspects, from an oddsmaker to a jealous husband, and there is also talk of steroids. By the author of Murder Most Fowl.
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When Vernell Lindsey, Clearview's newly published romance novelist, decides to hold a romance writer's convention, residents think this will finally get their town on the map. They are even more excited when they learn that former Clearview resident Terry Don Coslin will headline the event - Terry Don is now the most sought-after male cover model for these very novels. Rhodes doesn't understand why so many people are interested in writing, but this...
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"In Compound Murder, award-winning Bill Crider invites mystery fans on a new adventure with Texas Sheriff Dan Rhodes. Before classes start one morning, the body of English instructor Earl Wellington is found outside the building of the community collegecampus in Clearview. Wellington was clearly involved in a struggle with someone and has died as a result. Sheriff Dan Rhodes pursues and arrests a student, Ike Terrell, who was fleeing the campus....
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On the day the bloodthirsty gang rode in to Blanco, Texas, the bank was robbed, Ellie Taine was brutally assaulted, and her husband and another man were shot dead. Something within Ellie also died that day, and she would never be the same. Shotgun at her side, she rode out after the desperadoes and gave Texas one more outlaw--a woman bent on bloody revenge.
18) Dead soldiers
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"First someone steals several valuable toy soldiers from the collection of a small liberal arts school located in the quiet town of Pecan City, Texas. The dean asks Carl Burns, Chair of the English Department, to look into things, which he does, reluctantly. When a college board member is shot and killed, it becomes clear there is a link between the stolen toys and the shooting."--Book jacket.
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"That Truman Smith was sitting in a frayed lawn chair reading an old paperback copy of Tobacco Road was not remarkable. And strange as it sounds, it wasn't particularly noteworthy that someone wanted Smith to look into the murder of a prairie chicken; after all, he'd investigated and solved the murder of an alligator, hadn't he?"--BOOK JACKET. "The Attwater's Prairie Chicken isn't really a chicken, it's a grouse. And there are only about 108 of them...